The following is an excerpt from “Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia,” published in March 2022 by University Press of Kentucky. Author Luke Manget is an assistant professor of History at Dalton State College, located in Dalton, Georgia. Henry Webb scanned the ground for plants […]
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Ginseng and Big Pharma: How Appalachia Built an Industry that Would Later Exploit It
More than a century before the likes of Purdue Pharma began flooding Appalachian communities with opioids and destroying lives, giant pharmaceutical companies had a very different relationship to the mountain region. Indeed, years of research into business records and country store ledgers has revealed that Appalachian root diggers and herb […]
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